Video game sequels are a different beast than sequels in other mediums. In video games, a sequel is typically expected to improve upon its predecessor because video games are intensely technical. Since a game is thought of at least partly as a feat of software engineering, sequels are approached as a honing, refining and improvement of the original as much as they are a thematic and aesthetic continuation of them. In other words, we should think of video game sequels as new and improved models as much as the next chapter of a story, if not more so. On the other hand, the nature of a sequel demands in any medium of genre demands narrative escalation.

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The Chinese Room logo - the creative process — The Chinese RoomThe logo was designed by a local Brighton graphic design studio about
4 years ago. It works well as a logo, but as The Chinese Room has grown
and changed, it wasn't sitting right as the visual to represent the
studio. Red and black are very heavy colours and triangles are quite
harsh and sharp. The overall logo is very masculine and corporate -
exactly what The Chinese Room is not.So I began my goals for rebrand -• Make the logo less masculine

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“No One Criticized Bioshock Infinite Before!” | this cage is wormssomething has changed. If the world were the same way it was three
years ago, the people finding out about these long standing critiques
would still be walking around thinking everyone sees Infinite as
a holy grail of achievement. And that’s heartening, in some ways,
because it means the discourse has shifted that little, small amount.
The words got out, somehow.
/.../I’ve got the long view on “games criticism” at this point, like quite a
few others, and I’d say that 80% of the people doing that kind of work
on the internet who predate myself and my “cohort” have gone on to other
things. Maybe even higher. But there’s a weird print in the culture in
the shape of their words, and well, I guess that’s something.